Language: JapaneseGenre: Anime/AdventureMPAA rating: PGDirector: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk WiseActors: Daveigh Chase, Lauren Holly, Suzanne PleshettePlot: A young girl is whisked away to a world of witches, dragons, gods and spirits when her parents stop at a seemingly abandoned amusement park. When her parents are transformed into pigs, it's up to Chihiro to make new friends and believe in herself in order to find the way back to her own world.

Language: JapaneseGenre: Drama/CrimeMPAA rating: PG-13Director: Akira KurosawaActors: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki MoriPlot: A crime is told from four different points of view, through different people - but which version is the truth?

Language: JapaneseGenre: Anime/ActionMPAA rating: PG-13Director: Hayao MiyazakiActors: Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Billy Bob ThorntonPlot: A prince leaves his country to find a cure for a disease that was passed onto him by a possessed boar god. He goes east to find a cure and put a stop to what is angering the gods of the forest.

Language: JapaneseGenre: Anime/WarMPAA rating: PGDirector: Isao TakahataActors: Rhoda Chrosite, J. Robert Spencer, Veronica TaylorPlot: During WWII, a brother and his young sister are forced to survive on their own after their mother is killed in an air raid and they shun their other relatives.

Language: JapaneseGenre: Anime/DramaMPAA rating: PGDirector: Isao TakahataActors: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary SteenburgenPlot: Based on the oldest surviving, and one of the most famous, Japanese folklore tales - an old man who makes a living selling bamboo comes across a princess, no bigger than his finger, in one of the plants. Named Kaguya, she grows and when she is of age, five suitors from five prestigious families come to propose. She requests five memorable wedding gifts - but each of the five men fails to bring her what she wants - then, the Emperor of Japan proposes as well.

Language: JapaneseGenre: Anime/FantasyMPAA rating: GDirector: Hayao MiyazakiActors: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Evan SabaraPlot: Two young sisters move to the country to be closer to their sick mother. In the forest by their house they discover Totoro, a forest spirit, and the adventure begins.

Language: JapaneseGenre: DramaMPAA rating: NRDirector: Akira KurosawaActors: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo TanakaPlot: A dedicated old man is an official in the Public Affair division. For the very first time in 30 years of service he skips work to check on a health condition. His distant relationship with his son, along with that of a waiter and also a colleague, will change his perception of life and priorities.

Language: JapaneseGenre: Anime/DramaMPAA rating: PGDirector: Hiromasa YonebayashiActors: Geena Davis, Kiernan Shipka, Hailee SteinfeldPlot: Anna is a young girl who is a misfit with no friends, when illness has her move away from her foster parents out to the country, she befriends Marnie - a girl with long, flowing gold hair, among the sand dunes. But when a new family moves in, Marnie suddenly disappears and Anna learns the truth about her new friend.